Tape Backup

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iSCSI for TL-Series Tape Libraries by Dell, Inc.
a customer to directly attach a tape backup target to their iSCSI 1Gb Ethernet SAN with little to no degradation in transfer speed. This white paper explores this setup and configuration. To supplement the growth in iSCSI SANs, Dell has introduced an iSCSI-to...
Thinking Beyond Tape: The Case Against Tape Backup by Double-Take Software
of a backup strategy based only on tape backup. When recoverability matters, depend on Double-Take Software to dynamically move, protect, and recover your critical applications. Many companies are already backing up their main and branch office systems to tape...
Tipcast: Optimizing Tape Backup Systems by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Many organizations still rely on tape instead of disks for their backup needs. As the amount of incoming data increases actions need to be taken to optimize and squeeze more life out of existing tape systems. As a result, storage venders have been taking...
Understanding the Role and Application of Remote Server Backup Technologies by Iron Mountain Digital
their tape solutions. Tape backup is inexpensive, very scalable via automation, and can be easily transported and secured off-site. Disk-based backup can help improve the performance of backups and restores, reduce the cost of management...
Podcast: Changing the Rules of Backup: Go Beyond Virtual Tape Library for Accelerating Your Backup by FalconStor Software
organizations, traditional server backup remains the primary means of protecting data. And despite decades of technology development in this area, challenges remain. This podcast will discuss methods for backing up data and the relative performance...
Victaulic Speeds Backup and Restores, Cuts Capacity with SEPATON VTL and Data Deduplication by SEPATON
backup times, Victaulic Company's tape backup systems could no longer provide the performance or capacity they needed for efficient data protection. For a cost comparable to tape, Victaulic Company implemented a SEPATON S2100-ES2 virtual tape library (VTL) with...
Enhancing Disk-to-Disk Backup with Data Deduplication by FalconStor Software
when IT budgets are tight. Backup is critical to protecting data and ensuring its recoverability. However, backup applications, by design, continuously create new copies of the same data, resulting in an explosion of required storage capacity on...
HP StorageWorks tape and disk-to-disk data protection by Hewlett-Packard Company
variety of choices, ranging from tape backup to multiple layers of online, nearline and offline protection. And the newer technologies--such as disk-to-disk backup, virtual tape libraries, data deduplication, and low-cost hard drives--enable you to add layers of...
Using Deduplication with Modern Mainframe Virtual Tape by Data Domain
effectively switch from physical tape (or hybrid disk/tape) to a modern mainframe Virtual Tape solution with Data Domain deduplication storage. Mainframe IT managers have used physical tape for backup and recovery for decades. However, they no longer have...
The Evolving Role of Disk and Tape in the Data Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
and explores the aspects of disk and tape solutions that, when combined into a disk-to-disk-to-tape solution, provide the most robust answer to backup and archival for the data center. This whitepaper describes five best practices for backup and long-term data...
Webcast: Data Deduplication and Disk-to-Disk Backup Systems by Data Domain
performed. For years, users have used tape backup because it was the only cost-effective option. Disk was too expensive to deploy in significant quantities.

The inherent flaws of tape:
  • complexity
  • unreliability
  • slow performance

This webcast explains why data de...
Disk-based data backup and recovery for SMBs by i365, A Seagate Company
disk is increasingly being used as a backup storage target. In this FAQ, Executive Editor and Independent Backup Expert W. Curtis Preston, discusses the role of disk-based backup in the SMB space. As storage capacity needs grow in SMBs, disk is increasingly being...
Squeezing more out of tape backup systems by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Tape vendors have recently improved their tape devices' density, enhancing management tools, integrating tape with their disk storage systems, and adding encryption. Listen to this podcast to find out how you can take...
Moving to Disk-based Backup? Seven Key Questions to Ask by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Backing up to disk instead of tape eliminates the hassles of tape, provides faster backups and restores, improves security and streamlines operations. Learn about the 7 critical questions to ask when considering a move to disk-based backup...
Case Study: Cutting Backup Times from Eight Hours to Twenty Minutes at U.S. Army Command by Quantum Corporation
current location at Scott AFB, its tape backup systems could no longer cope with the load. As a result, the team reoriented its backup strategy around Quantum's DXi7500 disk-based deduplication and replication solution while relying on a Quantum Scalar...
Interstate Hotels & Resorts Stays with SEPATON for Advanced Data Protection by SEPATON
Interstate Hotels & Resorts' tape backup systems could no longer handle its growing volumes of financial data, their IT staff installed SEPATON S2100 virtual tape libraries (VTL) to meet both its short and long-term secondary storage needs. This case study...
Building a Service-oriented Data Protection Strategy by Storage Decisions
data replication and clustering to tape backup and restore, are available to provide the data recovery capability that a business process or application requires. Matching data protection service levels to business requirements is not only a rational...
Replay AppImage Helps The Villiage Restore Any Exchange Object With a Few Simple Clicks of a Mouse by AppAssure Software
confident in its abilities. The disk/tape backup is simply a secondary tier of protection. If we have a catastrophic failure, Replay enables us to recover to the same or different server in a short amount of time with just a few clicks of the mouse. This is peace of mind!

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ITS Group Consulting Offers "More 9's" and Killer RTO/RPO with Replay AppImage by AppAssure Software

ITS Group had been relying on tape backups to protect Exchange data but, as most of us know, tape backups fail 38% of the time. While consulting with a large financial firm, ITS Group got to know about Replay AppImage and ran an evaluation.

It's...
Achieving Cost Savings in Backup with Deduplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
currently consumed by existing tape libraries can be far better utilized by moving to disk back-up with deduplication. All evidence continues to point to accelerated data growth and a greater need for fast, reliable backup systems - despite a...
FAQ Guide: Disk-based data backup and recovery for SMBs by i365, A Seagate Company
disk is increasingly being used as a backup storage target. In this FAQ, Executive Editor and Independent Backup Expert W. Curtis Preston, discusses the role of disk-based backup in the SMB space. Curtis takes a closer look at the benefits and cost...
Essential Guide to Data Backup for SMBs by SearchSMBStorage.com
Data backup is still the No. 1 pain point for storage administrators. The tips in this guide will help you simplify your backup process and put together a reliable backup and recovery plan. Data backup is still the No. 1 pain point for...
Hitchcock Schools Protects SQL Servers and Data with Replay AppImage by AppAssure Software
AppImage. "I don't spend hours on tape backups and then worry about dirty tapes anymore," says Armacost. "Replay AppImage takes snapshots every 15 minutes and if a server does go down, we'll just restore it...
Case Study: Quantum Data Deduplication Solution Provides IFB with Complete Return on Investment in Only Four Weeks by Quantum Corporation
disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backup and restore infrastructure based on the Quantum DXi-Series.. How does a dynamic U.K. business get its large customers to entrust it with their data? The answer is to deploy a Quantum data deduplication solution. By...
IT Download: Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 by Symantec Corporation
providing comprehensive disk and tape backup and recovery support for Windows-based environments. Continuous data protection and patent-pending Granular Recovery Technology for critical Microsoft applications helps to ensure that business critical...
Using Tape Virtualization to Improve Backup Performance by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
review of Sun Microsystems' tape virtualization solutions, identifying how their offerings can best be leveraged to produce an optimized backup infrastructure. Virtual tape library (VTL) technology is arguably the easiest way to introduce...
Smart Move: Spend Less While Improving Data Protection by i365, A Seagate Company
Businesses today face a myriad of challenges in protecting their business-critical data. The reliance on data and information systems has created internal and external challenges for business owners and their IT staffs. One of the main issues is unrelenting data and application growth. Businesses today face a myriad of challenges...
ESG Report: Data Deduplication Diversity: Evaluating Software- vs. Hardware-Based Approaches by CommVault Systems, Inc.
deduplication will drive further backup-to-disk adoption and deliver associated performance and reliability benefits. Deduplication dramatically improves the value proposition of disk-based data protection as it eliminates the redundancy...
Protecting Server Data in Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs) by Iron Mountain Digital
an online disk-based server backup sol... Protecting critical information is becoming a growing business challenge as the amount of data continues to increase at alarming rates. The pervasive use of computer resources throughout business...
VMware and Dell Solutions for Small to Medium Business: Ensuring Rapid, Reliable and Affordable Disaster Recovery by Dell and VMware
level of data protection (such as tape backup), but backup and restore alone cannot deliver the rapid and reliable DR capabilities that organizations need. Affordable HA and DR solutions are critical to the survival of all SMBs in the event of a disaster. Building...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
It can take up to 12 hours or more to process a full backup job and move the entire backup volume to tape or disk. For many companies, that's just too much time. IT departments can use snapshots to capture entire storage environments, or simply track changes to the state of mission-critical systems. Snapshots can establish... More...
How to implement disk-to-disk backups
error-prone process.

Consider the use of removable hard drives

Where disk capacity is finite, a tape backup can be almost any size (within the limits of the operating system and backup software) -- just add more tape cartridges. Tapes can also be transported for offsite storage. A new generation of removable hard drives from vendors like Imation Corp., Prostor Systems Inc... More...

How to improve tape backup performance and reliability
The role of tape is clearly changing, shifting away from everyday data backup and moving toward deep archiving or offsite storage, but tape is still an important element of many data centers. Storage professionals must contend with concerns about tape performance and... More...
FAQ's
Are there any benefits or drawbacks of choosing a separate tool for backup reporting compared with using a tool that's integrated with your backup software?
The backup applications usually provide some fundamental reporting on backup operations. You might have a dashboard view and some canned reports that focus on things like backup job status or media, or device error. And if you need to drill... More...
Who are the major vendors in the tape encryption market?
talking about software encryption, pretty much all of the mainstream backup products offer encryption capabilities.

Check out the entire Tape Encryption FAQ.

IBM and Sun Microsystems are probably the leaders right now. HP is probably not too far behind, although I don't have numbers to tell you if HP is... More...

What vendors offer backup reporting tools? Who are the major players?
I mentioned earlier, there are vendor-specific tools that are built into backup applications. So companies like BakBone and CA and CommVault have those types of applications that are built right in and report on their own backup application. And then of course you have storage resource management... More...